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DOES THIS NOT TELL YOU ABOUT THE MIND, ALL YOU NEED KNOW”: THAT EVERYONE THINKS HAD THEY BEEN PRESENT AT CREATION USEFUL SUGGESTIONS TO GOD, THEY’D HAVE MADE?!
THE MIND IS IN THE UNIVERSE,
BUT TO THE MIND — IT IS THE UNIVERSE :
…AND FROM ITS PERSPECTIVE, A NOTION NOT FAR WRONG….
….AND YET, WHATEVER THE UNIVERSE ACTUALLY BE — IT REMAINS,
REGARDLESS OF THE THOUGHT-OF-MIND.
* * *
TO THE MAN AVERAGE: THE STATE OF THE WORLD EXTERNAL IS THE CONDITION OF HIS INNER STATE OF TEMPERAMENT.
…(WELL I JUST GOT THROUGH POINTING OUT TO YOU
THAT MAN’S INNER WORLD TURNS OUT TO ALSO BE THE UNIVERSE ITSELF.)
* * *
AFTER PURSUING THE MATTER OF ENLIGHTENMENT FOR SOME AND THEN UPON READING ON SUBJECTS OCCULT,
ONE MAN SUDDENLY THOUGHT: “THE IDEA OF ‘ZOMBIES’ IS NOT WITHOUT MERIT.”
* * *
WHEN ONE MAN FIRST HEARD THE TERM, “AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES”,
HE IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF THE MIND’S –“INFINITE CAPACITY”….
….BUT THEN HE ALSO TOOK NOTE OF ITS COMPLETE LACK OF AN UNEASINESS OR DOUBT REGARDING THE EXERCISE OF SAID CAPACITY.
THE END IS ALWAYS NEAR….AND YET, FAR AWAY, (AS IS ALSO, THE BEGINNING).
DOES DEATH MAKE LIFE FEEL AWKWARD?…DOES LIFE CAUSE DEATH, DISCOMPOSURE?:
DOES YOUR NORMAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS DISCOMFITURE YOUR DREAMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT? — IF SO, EXPLAIN THIS TO ME — BETTER STILL, TO YOURSELF,
AND THEN SEE IF THERE ARISES IN YOUR MIND ANY EMBARRASSMENT OVER THE INFINITE RICHES OF HUMAN THOUGHT.
AND ONE MAN SUDDENLY THOUGHT: “THE IDEA OF ZOMBIES WITH THEIR “EYES-WIDE-OPEN”
DOES INDEED PRESENT A MOST CAPTIVATING POSSIBILITY NO?!”
YOU MAY SAY THAT,”A DOG IS JUST A DOG”, BUT IT IS TRUE TO ITS NATURE…. ….NOT AT ALL LIKE MAN — WHO “THINKS” HIMSELF, OTHERWISE.
SO, CHILDREN, WHY NOT NOW LET US SAY:
“A MAN IS JUST A MAN, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE TO SAY.”
* * *
AND TO HIMSELF, A CERTAIN CHAP MUSED: “WHEN MY TEMPERAMENT BE OUT OF SORTS,
THE BALANCE OF THE UNIVERSE, IT UPSETS.”
(HE THEN BROKE INTO A QUITE RIDICULOUS SONG THAT RAISED THE PRAISES OF: “BEING HALF-DAZED”.)
AND THUS IT BE, (I REMIND YOU CHILDREN) THE IMPORTANCE OF SAYING THAT: “A MAN IS JUST A MAN, BUT HE DOESN’T HAVE TO LET THAT — ‘GET HIM DOWN’.”
* * *
BEING THE ASTUTE”BIZ-WHIZ”HE WAS,
ONE MAN, AFTER MAKING A CLOSE STUDY OF THE THINGS CALLED, “THOUGHTS WHICH-SEEMED TO BE THE PRIMARY FORM OF TRANSACTIONS TAKING PLACE IN HIS MIND,
SAID TO HIS MIND, REGARDING THESE NEURAL INSTRUMENTS:
“I CAN GET ‘EM FOR YOU – WHOLESALE SURELY!, AT LEAST AT, WHOLESALE!”
THE COLD, ACUTE EYE-OF-REALITY
RECOGNIZES THE ‘RELATIVE LEVEL OF “QUALITY”. OF ALL GOODS TRADED IN THIS UNIVERSE,
(AND BE PLEASED TO MAKE NOTE THAT THERE EXISTS NO SUCH, “RELATIVE LEVEL OF QUALITY” — YOU JUST IMAGINE SUCH.
THUS EVEN FURTHER NEED TO ALWAYS REMEMBER AND SAY THAT:
“THINGS ARE JUST THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE…AND WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU HAVE THEM BE?
…AND OF COURSE, FOR SURE REMEMBER NOT TO ANSWER SUCH A QUESTION —
… DOING SO WILL ONLY SPOTLIGHT THE RELATIVELY LOW LEVEL OF
THE QUALITY OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING.
…[AND ONE MAN MUSED: “YOU KNOW: CERTAIN, ‘REMEMBERIN”
CAN SURE MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A FOOL.
THANK GOD”, HE ADDED, “THAT I’VE FORGOTTEN
MOST ALL I EVER KNEW.”
A LAD, UPON HEARING THE OWNER OF A STORE TELL HIS SON: “NEVER GIVE CREDIT TO ANYONE.”, THOUGHT TO HIMSELF: “HOW GLAD I AM THAT MY DAD TOLD ME NEVER TO
GIVE ANY CREDIT TO MYSELF.”
* * *
MEN HAVE LONG OPINED THAT:
“TRUTH & REALITY ARE HIDDEN BEHIND VEIL AFTER VEIL AFTER VEIL AFTER VEIL”, BUT THEIR INTELLECT AGAIN FAILS TO REACH THE FAR SHORE,
FOR ALL THAT IS HIDDEN BEHIND THE INFINITE VEILS OF THOUGHT ARE — MORE VEILS.
* * *
A MAN SAID TO A MYSTIC:
“WHY, AFTER YOU’VE ONCE HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING AWAKE, AND KNOW FOR CERTAIN,
ITS REALITY AND TASTE — WHY,
AFTER THAT,
CANNOT YOU NOT BRING IT ON AT WILL?”,
AND THE MYSTIC SAID: “AH —- BUT YOU CAN.”, TO WHICH THE MAN REPLIED:
“I CANNOT.”, AND THE MYSTIC LEANED IN CLOSE AND WHISPERED:
“BUT ONLY BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU CAN’T.”,
AN IDEA THAT THE MAN COULD BOTH: UNDERSTAND, AND — NOT UNDERSTAND.
..AND ‘TIS GOOD, (IS IT NOT), THAT THERE BE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT HE CALLS:
“UNDERSTANDING”, AND THAT MARVELOUS, ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE ITSELF.
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“OH, PA PA.”, SQUEALED A KID ON ST. FOXEY’S DAY,, “GIVE ME ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE UNIQUENESS OF THE M[ND, …OH DO, PLEASE DO.”, AND HIS FATHER, (GRACIOUS AS ALWAYS) AGREED THERETO AND SO, VERBALLY EXEMPLIFIED: “THE HUMAN MIND IS THE ONLY THING YET DISCOVERED IN THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO – ‘FOOL ITSELF’!
LUNGS CAN’T DO IT, STOMACHS CAN’T DO IT, AND NO OTHER CREATURE ALIVE CAN DO IT. NO: ONLY THE MIND OF MAN CAN DECEIVE ITS OWN SELF.”, AND THE LAD TOOK THIS UNDER QUIET, BUT DETERMINED ADVISEMENT, THEN FINALLY SPOKE AGAIN, SAYING: “WELL, FROM A CIRCUMSTANCE SO SINGULAR IN THE ENTIRETY OF CREATION, I EXPECT WE SHOULD LEARN SOMETHING OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE, HUH?!”, TO WHICH THE ELDER RESPONDED: “YES, IT
WOULD CERTAINLY STRIKE YOU THUSLY…BUT THERE IS THIS ONE INHERENT PROBLEM REGARDING SUCH POTENTIAL LEARNING, (WHICH IS THAT): IT INESCAPABLY INVOLVES
THE MIND, ABOUT WHICH WE’VE ALREADY DISCERNED ITS UNEQUALED ABILITY TO DECEIVE.
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SO, WE’RE FACED WITH THE UNFORSEEN QUESTION OF: WHO/WHAT CAN BE TRUSTED IN THIS MATTER?:
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…AND EVEN THOUGH THEIR CONVERSATION STOPPED AT THIS POINT, THE BOY, FOR SEVERAL INTENSE DAYS, PONDERED THE WHOLE MENTAL, VERBAL SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES: WE WANT TO STUDY A MATTER CONCERNING THE MIND, AND YET HAVE PRE-DETERMINED THAT THE MIND IS SINGULAR IN ITS NATURAL ABILITY
TO FOOL AND MISLEAD EVEN ITSELF — AND, PARAMOUNT, OBVIOUSLY IN ALL OF THIS,
THE SIMPLE FACT THAT ALL SUCH “STUDIES” ARE THE SOLE BAILIWICK OF THE MIND ONLY THE MIND CAN MAKE SUCH STUDIES,
AND ONLY THE MIND CAN DECEIVE ITSELF.
..(QUITE A SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES, HUH?1
….[CAN’T YOU JUST IMAGINE HOW ENVIOUS THE LIONS & HIPPOS MUST BE].)
* * *
EVERY MORNING, FIRST THING UP, ONE MAN WOULD SLAP HIMSELF, SMARTLY ON THE FACE,
AND YELL: “SNAP OUT OF IT! — THERE’S NOTHING TO BE, ‘CONCERNED’ ABOUT!”,
WHICH ALWAYS CAME AS A SURPRISE…SINCE HE WAS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT ANYTHING.
FACT: THE ONLY “METHODS” THAT SUCCEED IN THE MIND
ARE THOSE
NOT NEEDED.
NOTE: THIS FACT ALONE SHOULD ENABLE AN ASTUTE MAN TO, “SNAP OUT OF” — EVERYTHING.
A SHORT TIME LATER, ‘WAY-CROSS-TOWN,
A CERTAIN LAD ASKED HIS DAD:
“WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘CLEAVER, SHREWD MAN’ & A MERE, ‘SMART-ASS’?”
AND HIS OLD MAN REPLIED: “A CLEAVER MAN DOESN’T HAVE TO, ‘WORK AT IT’.”,
A STATEMENT THAT REMINDER THE KID OF SOMETHING ELSE HIS FATHER HAD SAID:
“IN THE REALM OF THE HUMAN MIND: ‘APPEARANCES” ARE EVERYTHING…NO!, REALLY! ,
THEY ARE LITERALLY, ‘EVERYTHING’…APPEARANCES IS ALL THERE IS THERE.”
…”WHAT A DAD.”, THE BOY MUSED TO HIMSELF, “I JUST HOPE THAT SOME DAY I CAN BE
JUST LIKE HIM, AND THUS, KNOW ALL THAT HE KNOWS WHICH, HUMMM…IS A CURIOUS
THING FOR ME TO MUSE….IN THAT I, (THE LESSER & UNFINISHED OF US TWO), AND HE, (THE GREATER & COMPLETED OF US TWO),
ARE BOTH FIGMENTS OF A SINGLE MIND 919 WHICH – “YIKES!”, I REALIZE SOUNDS
IMPROBABLE, BUT FACE THE FACT: IF WE WEREN’T BOTH INVENTED PRODUCTS OF A SINGLE MIND — THE ONE RELATING THIS VERY TALE — THEN HOW COULD THE TELLER OF THIS TALE KNOW WHAT GOES ON IN THE MINDS OF BOTH ME AND MY FATHER.?!”….AN UNEXPECTED POSER WHICH THEN LEFT THE LAD TO PONDER THE QUITE REAL POSSIBILITY THAT — INDEED!, THE ENTIRETY OF REALITY AND OUR UNIVERSE, AS PERCEIVED, MEASURED, AND TALKED-ABOUT MY MAN, MAY EXISTS TOTALLY — IN HIS OWN MIND.
“YIKES” AGAIN…WHAT AN EXPANDING RELIEF & EXPLANATION THAT WOULD BE?!
AND ONE OF THE REVELERS, RAISING HIGH HIS GLASS IN A TOAST, SAID, AS THE ON 5
VINO FILLED VESSEL APPROACHED HIS LIPS: “HERE”S TO: LOWERED CONSCIOUSNESS, AND:
LOWERED EXPECTATIONS.” & A PASSING WAITER SAID TO HIMSELF, AN IMPROVED VERSION: “NO: HERE’S TO: CLEAR CONSCIOUSNESS AND.THUS: NO — ‘EXPECTATIONS’.”
ONE MAN ASKED THIS GUY, (WHO HE WAS CONVINCED, AMONG ALL OTHER POSSIBILITIES), WAS SURELY, “AWAKE, ENLIGHTENED”, AND DAMN-WELL, “KNEW-WHAT-WAS-GOING-ON”, THIS QUESTION:
“HAS ACCOMPLISHING ALL THAT YOU HAVE, MADE YOU UNIQUELY ‘HAPPY’?”,
AND I’LL ANSWER THAT FOR YOU:
ONLY A MAN WHO HAS NO EARTHLY IDEA AS TO ‘WHAT’S-GOING-ON’
WOULD THINK OF SUCH A QUESTION.
…(DID YOU CATCH THE FACT THAT I DIDN’T SAY THAT SUCH A MAN WOULDN’T “ASK”
SUCH A QUESTION?!,
I RATHER SAID THAT HE WOULD NEVER “THINK” OF SUCH A QUESTION.
…DO YOU EVER NOW GET QUICK GLIMPSES OF AN ELUSIVE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT
THE ORDINARY MIND CALLS, “MENS’ BEHAVIOR”,
AND THAT WHICH IT REFERS TO AS, “THE MOTIVATIONS FOR MENS’ BEHAVIOR”.,
AND BY SO SETTING UP THIS APPARENT DISTINCTION IN THEIR THINKING,
REMOVE THEIR PERCEPTION FROM A CLOSE ENOUGH POSITION
TO EVER REALIZE THE ERROR THEREOF?!
YES, I’M SURE WE’RE ALL IN COMMON AGREEMENT AS TO THE HUMOR OF THE SITUATION: A DISTORTING MAGNIFYING GLASS MEN USE TO STUDY — WHAT?…YEP: THE MAGNIFYING GLASS.
ONCE YOU FULLY AND MORE STABLY SEE FOR YOURSELF THE TANGIBLE REALITY UNDERLYING SUCH VERBAL PICTURES AS THE ONE I JUST PAINTED,
YOU WILL ALSO UNDERSTAND WHY, “BEING AWAKE AND ENLIGHTENED….THAT IS: “KNOWING-WHAT-IS-GOING-ON”,
IS NOT, (TO THOSE WHO’VE ACCOMPLISHED SAME),
SUCH A — “BIG DEAL”.
…AFTER ALL: JUST HOW MUCH “CREDIT” IS A MAN DUE FOR, (LET US SAY), DISCOVERING FINGERS AT THE END OF HIS HAND?!
“AHHHHHHH!”, PLEASURABLY & CONFIDENTLY SIGHED A CERTAIN MYSTICAL MONK, “TO — ‘BE AWAKE’ !”, AND A FELLOW NEOPHYTE OPINED: “AND BE THE
‘SMARTEST-MAN-ALIVE’?!”, “NO”, REPLIED THE FIRST MONK, “AND BE ONE OF THE VERY FEW
‘NOT STUPID’.”, AND THE SECOND MONK, NOW PUZZLED & CONFUSED, ASKED: “SO, WHAT’S
THE DIFFERENCE?!” “AHH.”, THE FIRST ONE REPLIED: “NOW THAT,
ONLY THE AWAKENED REALIZE.”,…”AND JUSTICE-RIDES-AGAIN’.”, MUSED A PASSING
BLUE JAY, A SENTIMENT, (WHETHER FULLY UNDERSTOOD BY THE FEATHER ONE OR NOT), SO APTLY DEFINES THAT INVISIBLE, INVENTED WORLD THAT FLOATS IN MENS’ MINDS:
IT IS INDEED, A PLACE WHERE JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAILS IN THAT: IF YOU PREFER JACK, THEN HE DEFEATS THE GIANT: BUT IF YOUR MONEY’S ON THE “LARGE ONE”, THEN HE SLAYS
JACK. IF YOU LIVE IN,”THE-LAND-OF-THE-MIND” ALL IDEAS OF “SUCCESS OR FAILURE”,
“TRUTH OR FALLACY” ARE “LUDICROUS”…WHAT MORE CAN WE SAY BUT, “LUD-I-CROUS” ?!?!
BY THE BY: REGARDING AN EARLIER ITEM THAT TOUCHED ON THE MATTER OF:
“MOTIVATIONS”, DO NOTE: THERE IS BUT ONE “MOTIVATING FACTOR”IN LIFE…. WHICH IS — LIFE.
* * *
AND THIS LETTER FROM A LISTENER:
“LAST WEEK YOU READ AN ITEM WHICH CONCERNED A FATHER GIVING TO HIS SON,
AS AN EXAMPLE OF: ‘AN ENLIGHTENED MAN’:
“HE WHO CAN VISIT THE GRAVE OF A LOVED ONE AND NOT TALK TO THEM’ ,
AND I MUST SAY I DO NOT FIND THIS VERY SATISFYING:
COULD YOU OFFER A MORE EXPLANATORY ILLUSTRATION?”,
WELL SIR: THIS:
“AN ENLIGHTENED MAN IS HE WHO,
WHILE LAYING AT HIS OWN FUNERAL
IS UN-MOVED BY THE WORDS SPOKEN ABOUT HIM.”
AND A MAN ASKED A MYSTIC:
“DOES — EVERYTHING YOU SAY — ‘MAKE’SENSE’ TO YOU?!?!”, “FOOLISH MAN.”, MUTELY MUSED THE MYSTIC,
“HOW COULD I BE ENLIGHTENED AND IT BE OTHERWISE?!”
SEE?!?! AH HAH! — CAUGHT YOU PEOPLE AGAIN —
YOU’VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE
INESCAPABLE “JUSTICE”
INHERENT IN THE MIND
RESULTING IN THERE BEING NO
OBJECTIVE,
REAL-TIME,
REAL-SPACE,
REAL — ANYTHING BASIS-FOR
THE BASE-LESS BELIEF THAT: SOME THINGS, ‘MAKE SENSE”, WHILE OTHERS DO NOT.
FACT: IF THE MIND HAS “THOUGHT OF IT”,
IT COMES IN “ALL COLORS, ALL SIZES, ALL SHAPES, FORMS AND FLAVORS” —
— WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR?’ IN WHAT LESS CAN YOU HAVE, FOOLISH FAITH?!…
…IN WHAT OTHER PART OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE CAN YOU FIND AN AREA IN WHICH
AN APPARENTLY IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT OPERATION HAS THE INDIGENOUS ABILITY TO: “DECEIVE ITS OWN SELF” ?!
…(CAN YOU BELIEVE THE CONGESTION CONTROLLING THAT MAN’S PERCEPTION
THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO ASK THE QUESTION OF ONE ENLIGHTENED:
“DOES EVERYTHING YOU SAY – ‘MAKE SENSE’ TO YOU?”….WELL, JUST WHAT THE HELL DO YOU FIGURE THE MAN THINKS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF ACHIEVING ENLIGHTENMENT?!
…(AND THUS, THERE YOU HAVE AS A BY-PRODUCT, YET ANOTHER WAY YOU CAN, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE], TEST YOURSELF FOR “SIGNS OF AWAKENING”, WHICH IS, TO ASK YOURSELF:” DOES SOME OF WHAT I BELIEVE I ‘THINK & KNOW’ ACTUALLY – ‘MAKE-SENSE-TO-ME’?!”…THERE IT IS: THE SURE-FIRE, NEVER-MISLEAD-YOU,
TEST. (COME ON, LEVEL WITH ME: DO YOU PASS?’ )
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